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 Led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott  Abolitionists fought for women’s rights  Declaration of Sentiments was written › Goals: education, property and voting rights “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal…” from the Declaration of Sentiments, 1848

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 Citizenship/voting rights for men only

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 Arrested for illegally voting  Supreme Court decides that states can deny women the right to vote “Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.” Susan B. Anthony on her arrest for illegal voting, 1872